Starting on Saturday, Ella Jennings completed the town to tower 10k from Ruthin to Moel, involving steep elevation over trail! Congrats Ella, we bet that’s the only time that race will ever see our Croups Brat top on its traverses! 🍏

Moving to Sunday and the Forest of Dean Half Marathon, where we had 4️⃣ runners representing Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in their various age groups! First home for the club was Oli Williams in the M35 age group, completing the race in 1:16:27 finishing 8th overall, Matt Hurford was in next in the M50 age group, putting on a scintillating performance with 1:22:49! Susan Watson was up next in the F55’s, crossing the line in 1:45:19, followed by Judi Rhys for the F65’s, completing the race in a brilliant 1:54:36! 👏

Elsewhere in the South West, we had several runners participating in run Barnstaple, consisting of a marathon, half and 10k. In the Marathon, Carole Goddard finished an amazing 🥇 F50 in 3:24:18, Penny Coyle achieved a new PB of 3:24:16, Sarah Pryor ran a strong race in 4:09:11 & the ever formidable Julie Scholey finished 5th in her age category in 4:18:13!

In the Half Marathon, Ed Donovan ran a brilliant race, finishing 🥉 overall and 🥈 M40 in 1:18:58!

Looking across the Channel to France, Pete Gillibrand & Stephen Hughes competed in the Biere de Flandres Half Marathon. Alongside 13 miles of running, the event also involves consuming a strong beer every mile! Both boys put in amazing performance. Polishing off the first two beer stops with ease, impressively, they negative split the next beer stops, chugging each drink with ease and finishing in style on beer 13. Truly inspirational stuff 🍺